Open-source tactile/shear telemetry + contact flags / grip scoring for grippers (SO-ARM101 + Teensy)

Hi all — I’m sharing an early open-source release of a tactile/shear telemetry + annotation stack for robot grippers.

  • Hardware: SO-ARM101-style gripper with TPU pads + Teensy streaming 3-axis signals

  • Output: raw CSV + annotated CSV (baseline + simple flags + grip score)

  • Goal: make it easy to use tactile signals as debugging/benchmarking signals and as training hooks (reward/termination/phase labels), without requiring motor-control integration.

Repo: GitHub - 0o8o0-blip/tactile_kit · GitHub
Short demo: https://github.com/0o8o0-blip/tactile_kit/raw/master/grip_cycle.gif

Signals in v1:

  • contact

  • closed_empty

  • grip_score (heuristic baseline)

  • baseline_quality

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